“Japanese Home Life,” 133
4, 206, 216, 219–20, 231, 234, 236–
Jennie Gerhardt, xii, 5–6, 134, 163, 168, 199,
38, 244, 246, 252–59, 263–64, 269,
200–204, 206, 208, 211–12, 218–20,
271, 282; 350, 380, 395; Charges of
227, 229, 233, 237–38, 252, 254–55,
obscenity, 140, 259–61, 279, 281,
270, 274, 331, 364, 391; compared
294, 303, 316–17; earlier titles, 253;
with Sister Carrie, 169, 203–4; film
Mencken’s opinion of, 253–54; reissue
version, 371–72; Harper and Brothers’
of, 307, 311, 318–19
editing of, 204–5
“Giff.” See Gallery, A
Jeremiah I, 96
“Girl in the Co‹n, The,” 238, 241, 292
“Just What Happened When the Waters
“Gloom,” 350
of the Hudson Broke into the North
“Great Blossom, The,” (poem), 326
River Tunnel,” 179
“Hand, The,” 333
“Khat,” 333
Hand of the Potter, The, 207, 262–65,
269, 277, 281, 286, 292; 315, 368;
“Lady Bountiful, Jr.,” 288–89
Mencken’s dislike for, 262, 264–
“Laughing Gas,” 241
65; revised edition, 334
“Last Fly of Fly Time, The,” 82
“Haunts of Bayard Taylor, The,” 120
“Lesson from the Aquarium, A,” 224
“Haunts of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The,”
“Life, Art and America,” 271–73
124
“Light in the Window, The,” 243
“Heard in the Corridors,” 60–61
“Literary Apprenticeship, A,” 95, 203, 390
“Her Boy,” 314
“Little God, The” (poem), 325
“Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub,” 274, 373
“Little Flowers of Love and Wonder, The”
Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub, 241, 272, 283–84,
(poem), 327
304, 325, 348
Living Thoughts of Thoreau, The, 376,
“Hidden God, The” (poem), 326, 334
379
“Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners,”
“Loneliness of the City, The,” 181
289, 295
“Long, Long Trail, The,” 288
“Hollywood Now,” 295
“Lost Phoebe, The,” 231, 241
“Homes of Longfellow, The,” 120
“Love.” See “Chains”
“Hospital Violet Day,” 81, 110
“Love Affairs of Little Italy,” 180, 242
Hoosier Holiday, A, 18, 34–35, 71, 117, 145,
“Lucia.” See Gallery, A
238, 246, 248–49, 259, 265, 267, 274–
“Lying about Success,” 131
75, 281, 284, 322, 367; pro-German
sentiment, 247–48; road trip for,
“Madding Crowd, The,” (poem) 108
246–51
“Mark the Double Twain,” 374
“How He Climbed Fame’s Ladder,” 126
“Marriage for One,” 332
“Married,” 278–81, 284
“Ida Hauchawout.” See Gallery, A
“Materials of a Great Novel, The,” 223
“In the Dark,” 242
“Mathewson,” 366–67
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“Mayor and His People, A,” 131–32, 138,
“Rake, The” (earliest draft of The “Genius” ),
169, 283
163, 168, 254
“McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers.”
Rake, The (unfinished novel about
See “Shining Slave Makers, The”
Molineaux case), 303
“‘Mercy’ of God, The,” 333–34
“Real Howells, The,” 129
“Mighty Burke, The,” 219, 242
“Regina C _____ .” See Gallery, A
“Mighty Rourke, The,” 282
“Reina.” See Gallery, A
“Mirage” (poem), 293
“Rella.” See Gallery, A
Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed, 293, 325–
“Revolt,” 372
27, 373; charge of plagiarism, 328–29,
“Road I Came, The” (poem), 327, 400
347
“Rona Murtha.” See Gallery, A
“Mr. President: Free the Scottsboro Boys,”
“Return of Genius, The,” 53
359–60
“Rivers of the Nameless Dead, The,” 181
“My Brother Paul,” 87, 97, 117–18, 182,
281–82, 327; film version, 383
“Sanctuary,” 333
My City, 347
“Second Choice, The,” 278–79
“Shadow, The,” 332
“Neurotic America and the Sex Impulse,”
“Shining Slave Makers, The,” 79, 131–33,
304
379
“New York’s Art Colony,” 119
“Sidonie.” See “This Madness”
Newspaper Days, 46, 52, 56–57, 59–60,
“Silent Worker, The,” 181
62–64, 80, 82, 87–88, 95, 254, 272,
Sister Carrie, xi–xii, 3, 10, 17, 21, 24, 42, 45,
278, 280–81, 285, 292, 294, 298, 306,
60, 62, 65, 77, 81–82, 86, 89, 92, 95,
358
97, 102, 108, 111, 119–22, 125–26, 128,
“Nigger Jeff,” 56, 132–33, 135–38, 242, 265,
130–31, 133–34, 138, 140–64, 168, 170,
280, 366, 369
174, 176, 181, 184, 188, 196, 204, 206,
“Night Song,” (poem), 124
221–22, 224, 227, 230–31, 233, 252–54,
Notes on Life, 17, 284, 373
261, 269, 274, 281, 290, 292, 303, 312,
316–18, 330, 348, 356–57, 364, 366,
“Of the Shining Slave Makers.” See
380, 384, 386, 396; British edition,
“Shining Slave Makers, The”
162; dedication to Arthur Henry, 145,
“Old Neighborhood, The,” 331
186; dramatization, 400; ending, 228;
“Old Ragpicker, The,” 243–44
film version, 383; H. L. Mencken’s
“Old Rogaum and His Theresa.” See
opinion of, 207; Hurstwood, first
“Butcher Rogaum’s Door”
idea for, 90, 143; manuscript given
“Olive Brand.” See Gallery, A
to Mencken, 295; plagiarism of
“Overcrowded Entryway, An,” 295
George Ade’s “Fable of Two Man-
dolin Players,” 161, 186, 329; reissue,
“Peter,” 281
185–87, 189, 208–9, 220, 237, 276,
“Phantom Gold,” 333
372; suppression of, 140, 153–59, 183,
Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural,
199–200, 208, 236, 275, 342
241, 246
“Sixteen Dead,” 59
“Poet’s Creed, The” (poem), 184
“Spring Recital, The,” 243
“Portrait of a Woman.” See “Ernestine”
“St. Columba and the River,” 179, 332
under Gallery of Women, A
Stoic, The, xii, 199, 206, 235, 364–65, 368,
“Prince Who Was a Thief, The,” 333
373–74, 380, 390, 392, 394–95, 397, 399
“Problem of Distribution, The,” 169
“Story of a Human Nine-Pin, The,” 180
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“Story of Stories, The,” 280
“Transgressor, The.” See Jennie Gerhardt
“Supremacy of the Modern Business Man,
Traveler at Forty, A, 4, 86, 145, 209–12,
The,” 222
214, 229–31, 236–38, 254, 259, 267;
“Lilly: Girl of the Streets,” 210
“Ten-Foot Drop,” 136
“True Patriarch, A,” 84, 282
“This Calls for the Hemp,” 136
Twelve Men, 84, 168, 186, 190–92, 238,
“This Madness,” 347–48; “Aglaia,” 348;
254, 281–83, 286, 309, 348–49, 366
“Elizabeth,” 348; “Sidonie,” 347–48,
“Typhoon,” 331
350
“Tie your spirit to a sail” (poem), 378
“‘Vanity, Vanity,’ Saith the Preacher,”
Titan, The, xii, 25, 194, 199, 219, 221, 231,
282
234–39, 241, 243, 246, 252, 274, 302,
“Victim of Justice, A,” 136–37
399; cancellation by Harpers and
“Victor, The,” 333
Brothers, 236–37
“Village Feudists, The,” 282
“Tobacco.” See “Revolt”
“Tobacco and Men.” See “Revolt”
“Wages of Sin, The.” See “Typhoon”
“Toil of the Laborer, The,” 179
“Wayplace for the Fallen, A,” 173
“Toilers of the Tenements, The,” 242
“When the Old Century Was New,”
“Townsend,” 366
131–32, 134, 163
“Track Walker, The,” 181
“Winterton,” 366
Tragic America, 355–56, 365, 375, 378, 385,
“W.L.S.,” 281
387
“World and the Bubble, The,” 131
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